BILL NUMBER: AB 2583	CHAPTERED  09/18/00

	CHAPTER   480
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 18, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 16, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   SEPTEMBER 1, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 31, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 31, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 19, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 24, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MARCH 29, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cardenas
   (Coauthor:  Senator Johnston)

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2000

   An act relating to the payment of claims against the State of
California, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the
urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2583, Cardenas.    Claims against the state: payment.
   Existing law requires the Attorney General to report to the
Legislature when there is no sufficient appropriation available for
the payment of a claim against the state.
   This bill would appropriate $48,280,000 from the General Fund to
the Attorney General to pay a settlement payment to the United States
government for a specified court action.
  The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.
   Appropriation:  yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  The sum of forty-eight million two hundred eighty
thousand dollars ($48,280,000) is hereby appropriated from the
General Fund to the Attorney General for allocation to pay the first
of five annual settlement payments to the United States government
for the case of Craig Brown v. United States Department of Health and
Human Services, et al. (Ninth Circuit Appeal No. 99-1692).
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to pay settlement claims against the state and relieve
the state of additional financial liability as soon as possible, it
is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.
